This is a series of cVS. I am the world. I'm John Batche with Henry Sikalsky, the executive

director of the Non-Proliferation policy education center.

Over and over this last year,

Henry and his team have constructed a war game played by a number of distinguished

individuals in and out of government, a war game that has moved

one starting in 2027. The war game is entitled, a chiefly very China Space War game. This is about the PRC aggressively seeking to win.

War Game participants all knew this when they started. The scenario is that it is 2027. The PRC moves first. I read from the

document. The PRC team deployed 10 rendezvous ASAT systems into orbits within reach of the U.S. nuclear

command control and communication space infrastructure.

Henry, what is an ASAT system?

What does this mean?

What does it look like that they're within reach of our satellites?

Well, ASAT is an acronym, and I hate acronyms, so let's spell it out.

Anti-Satellite weapon essentially is what the word in the acronym,

A-SAT stands for, it's an anti-satellite weapon. Now that encompasses a lot of different things. It's not a single thing. What are

anti-satellite weapons? What kinds of things can't qualify? Well, if you have an electronic warfare warfare jamming system on the planet Earth and it puts jamming energy on the

electronic transmissions of a satellite that defeats the satellite

even though it does not

destroy permanently the satellite.

Another example of a disabling anti-satellite weapon that is based on Earth

would be lasers.

There are ground-based lasers that have a lot of civilian

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